Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas / edited by Christine Gledhill.
| Other author | Gledhill, Christine. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012] |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Christine Gledhill -- Refiguring genre and gender. The genius of genre and ingenuity of women / Jane Gaines -- No fixed address: the women's picture from outrage to blue steel / Pam Cook -- Circulating emotion: race, gender, and genre in Crash / E. Deidre Pribram -- 100% pure adrenaline: gender and generic surface in Point break / Luke Collins -- Postfeminism and generic re-inventions. Troubling genre/reconstructing gender / E. Ann Kaplan -- Bodies and genres in transition: girlfight and real women have curves / Yvonne Tasker -- Private femininity, public femininity: tactical aesthetics in the costume film / Samiha Matin -- Generic gleaning: Agnès Varda, documentary, and the art of salvage / Lucy Fischer -- Gender aesthetics in "male" genres. It's a Mann's world? / Adam Segal -- Up close and personal: faces and names in Casualties of war / Deborah Thomas -- Gender hyperbole and the uncanny in the horror film: The shining / Katie Model -- Genre and gender transnational. Emotion, subjectivity, and the limits of desire: melodrama and modernity in Bombay cinema, 1940s-50s / Ira Bhaskar -- Woman, generic aesthetics, and the vernacular: Huangmei opera films from China to Hong Kong / Xiangyang Chen -- Homoeroticism contained: gender and sexual translation in John Woo's Migration to Hollywood / Vicente Rodriguez Ortega -- Generic "trans-ings": between genres, genders, and sexualities. Trash comes home: gender/genre subversion in the films of John Waters / Derek Kane-Meddock -- Femme fatale or lesbian femme: bound in sexual différance / Chris Straayer -- "The gay cowboy movie": queer masculinity on Brokeback Mountain / Steven Cohan. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Gender meets genre in postwar cinemas Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2012] 9780252036613 (cloth) |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2019716491 |
| ISBN | cloth |
| ISBN | pbk. |
| ISBN | 9780252093661 e-book |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |